# 行政不服審査法 / Administrative Complaint Review Act — 第八条 (Article 8)

- Law: 行政不服審査法 (Administrative Complaint Review Act), 平成二十六年法律第六十八号
- English title "Administrative Complaint Review Act": Ministry of Justice translation
- Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say.
- Provision: 第八条 (Article 8)（特別の不服申立ての制度） — address `art-8`
- Text in force since: 2026-06-24
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-8
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-8
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### 第八条（特別の不服申立ての制度） — (Systems for Filing Special Complaints)
<sup>caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>
<sup>art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-8</sup>

**第一項**  前条の規定は、同条の規定により審査請求をすることができない処分又は不作為につき、別に法令で当該処分又は不作為の性質に応じた不服申立ての制度を設けることを妨げない。
<sup>art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-8/par-1</sup>
For dispositions or inaction for which requests for review may not be made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding Article, the provisions of that Article do not preclude the establishment of a system for filing administrative complaints in accordance with the nature of the dispositions or inaction as provided for separately by laws and regulations.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-8/par-1: 前条 → 行政不服審査法 第七条 (Article 7), art-7 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/administrative-complaint-review-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/426AC0000000068/art-7

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 行政不服審査法 — the text in force from 2026-06-24 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/426AC0000000068/20260624_508AC0000000046), retrieved 2026-10-17
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Administrative Complaint Review Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4757/tb), retrieved 2026-10-17
- This site's parser, version 208 — 行政不服審査法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-17